Trend price : 50-100€
Rackmount MDC1 is the equivalent of the Srjv-06 dance featuring many samples, loops including machines like TR-909 or TR-707.The dance was produced in cooperation with AMG, but it has been retired from market for copyright infrigment.
Overview
(weight: 2.6 Kg) single unit basic design with 11 buttons and a very simple 7-segments display.
Terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main out
- line input
- headphones
Voice
28 voices of polyphony based on subtractive synthesis and PCM samples at 16-bits resolution. Each patch is composed by 1, 2, 3 or 4 samples layers.
Wavetable
8 MB ROM holds 255 samples (different order from SRJV-06) focuses on electro sounds dirty samples from vinyls, analog brass, drum machines precussions and a big section of useless outdated drum loops and "yeahh ohhh baby". The only worth samples are perfect string and pads, mixed with resonant filter.
Performance
system manages 7 parts + 1 dedicated to kit drums
Filter
- lowpass filter
- bandpass filter
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highpass filter
LFO
2 modulators, 7 waveforms and 2 destinations:
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amplitude
- filter
Envelope
- amplitude: 4 stages ADSR
- filter: 4 stages ADSR
- pitch: 4 stages ADSR
Effect
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8 reverbs (including 2 delays)
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3 kind of choruses
Memory
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18 performances
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226 patches
- 17 rhythm sets
- 1
global setup
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: cheap / pad sounds
NOT : edit / display / memory / loop stuff
"A lot of sound in a cheap box. Too much outdated loops wastes memory and edit is too limited. This unit stinks! HOWEVER, there are about a dozen of excellent pads absolutely worth it-if you care"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci